Hi, I’m a type 1 & was diagnosed 20 years ago when I was 15. I’ve had ups and downs with it but more so since having my kids (aged 8 & 5). Anyway, saw the diabetes clinic today for a check up/general visit, and my goddness, this particular nurse is such a ****!!! Like she knows how to dampen down your positivity!
Admittedly I haven’t been perfect but for the last 2/3 months I’ve been putting so much effort into looking after myself.
But instead she tells me that when I wake up with a low reading that I should be treating it as a hypo despite me knowing that my sugars naturally rise in the morning anyway (without eating or drinking anything). When I told her I know what a hypo feels like & what to do she then said ‘well what if you’re driving and that happens and you don’t bother to treat a hypo?’. Errrr well I certainly wouldn’t be driving if my sugar levels were low or dropping would I??! And my hypos in the morning are different to one id say get in the afternoon or evening. As I said, if my levels are on the low side in the morning they start rising whether I take glucose or not (usually if I take glucose I end up with a massively high reading?!).
I currently take Levemir and Novo Rapid and I expressed an interest in possibly switching to a pump (after doing loads of research I feel this is something that I would benefit from) to which she then proceeded to tell me ‘how you have to meet a strict criteria & be eligible for funding & that the pumps they have are old fashioned etc etc’ oh and how they aren’t a ‘miracle’ that everyone thinks they are?? And ‘don’t think it controls your diabetes for you, you still have to finger prick and enter readings into a pump’ (like I don’t know this
I currently self fund the Libre and even then she said ‘well coz you self fund you automatically don’t qualify for NHS funding’, then went on to tell me how if there’s no improvement in my HBa1c then if I ever did get funding for it then it’d be taken away???
Like seriously, I feel deflated after putting so much effort into my care the last few months. This condition is so tiresome & it p****** me off how some blunt rude nurse can just make me feel like this.
Just hate when you feel like you’re being told off instead of encouraged. Oh and not to mention how she was answering her mobile phone at the start of my appointment.
Sorry if this doesn’t make sense. I just had a goal this year to try and get on a pump and be a ‘good diabetic’ but just feel like I’ve been knocked down.
(slight edit by mod for language)
Admittedly I haven’t been perfect but for the last 2/3 months I’ve been putting so much effort into looking after myself.
But instead she tells me that when I wake up with a low reading that I should be treating it as a hypo despite me knowing that my sugars naturally rise in the morning anyway (without eating or drinking anything). When I told her I know what a hypo feels like & what to do she then said ‘well what if you’re driving and that happens and you don’t bother to treat a hypo?’. Errrr well I certainly wouldn’t be driving if my sugar levels were low or dropping would I??! And my hypos in the morning are different to one id say get in the afternoon or evening. As I said, if my levels are on the low side in the morning they start rising whether I take glucose or not (usually if I take glucose I end up with a massively high reading?!).
I currently take Levemir and Novo Rapid and I expressed an interest in possibly switching to a pump (after doing loads of research I feel this is something that I would benefit from) to which she then proceeded to tell me ‘how you have to meet a strict criteria & be eligible for funding & that the pumps they have are old fashioned etc etc’ oh and how they aren’t a ‘miracle’ that everyone thinks they are?? And ‘don’t think it controls your diabetes for you, you still have to finger prick and enter readings into a pump’ (like I don’t know this
I currently self fund the Libre and even then she said ‘well coz you self fund you automatically don’t qualify for NHS funding’, then went on to tell me how if there’s no improvement in my HBa1c then if I ever did get funding for it then it’d be taken away???
Like seriously, I feel deflated after putting so much effort into my care the last few months. This condition is so tiresome & it p****** me off how some blunt rude nurse can just make me feel like this.
Just hate when you feel like you’re being told off instead of encouraged. Oh and not to mention how she was answering her mobile phone at the start of my appointment.
Sorry if this doesn’t make sense. I just had a goal this year to try and get on a pump and be a ‘good diabetic’ but just feel like I’ve been knocked down.
(slight edit by mod for language)
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